It is indeed a reality now that most of the crypto projects die within their first year and the reasons are many - not understanding the users, a weak governance and /or developing team, lack of vision, getting greedy and steal or getting theft by hackers etc. I also like the part where you mentioned about the possibilities of the pre search and hive collab, that would have been amazingly amazing and would have brought actual value in hive system. I also lost money in different projects mainly games, only splinterlands is still alive and working amongst them to be honest so I am working and investing more in here and stopped looking for any projects or coins outside hive ecosystem anymore.